Margulies Agency just announced that you are joining their art roster. How did you link with Mike Margulies?

He has shown support over the years whether by going to a few shows I've curated or just being cool overall. When I heard he started working as an agent for artists I kept a close eye to what he was doing. I wanted to see what he was about. Slowly but pretty quick we built a friendship. He loves art. It's been around him his entire life. The artists he represents are good friends so everything has been natural. 

Why did you choose the Margulies Agency?

I moved to New York over a year ago and I knew I had to have a solid connection in Miami. I knew I had to work with someone young and excited to work. We set up a few meetings and we laid things out. He's a very aggressive and passionate personality. I didn't want to work with standard establishment types or someone that really has no deep lifelong commitment to art. I love working with someone from the ground up. There's a passion there. It was a no brainier.  

What do you have planned going forward?

I can share that with you at a later date. Things are coming but just can't speak on it yet. Things are looking very good. 

Why did you choose a Miami based agency?

I like to do things in steps. I moved from Miami to build elsewhere and build in Miami at the same time if that makes sense. Mike understands that and he supports it. 

How is New York treating you? Is your career progressing as planned?

New York is great. I'm really in the building block stages. Really just making new work and building incredible friendships and bettering my knowledge of art making. I'm observing everything, taking it in and meeting the most amazing people I use to read about in art books. 

KIKI VALDES 

DISCUSSES 

MARGULIES 

ARTIST AGENCY 

From: Miami Art Zine 

By: Heike Dempster 

Keep reading interview 

Kiki Valdes "Can You Trust A Smile?" Oil on wood panel 2012 

To view more works visit: Michael Margulies Artist Agency 

— KAWS Keeps Rising: Brooklyn-based street artist-turned-gallery star Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS, will join Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami in the exclusive hundred-feet-high club for artists whose work has floated in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In November his figure "Companion" — a grayscale giant with cartoonish gloved hands covering its face — will become the latest (and perhaps the saddest) artist-designed balloon to float in the popular parade. "I kept imagining myself in front of that many people," KAWS said. "He’s shy, a bit out of place, not proudly posing like a Superman character." 

kawz 

in macy's thanksgiving day parade 

Via: Art Info / NYT 

Veggie Chips:
Love potato chips but know they aren’t good for you? Common sense dictates that vegetable chips – which the labels claim are made from real vegetables – would be a sensible alternative, right? Wrong. The first ingredients on most “veggie” chip labels are potatoes and corn, which, to be honest, aren’t that much different from regular run-of-the-mill chips. But those pretty colors, the ones that show that the chip is from a tomato, a bell pepper, heck, even a carrot!? Sadly they’re nothing more than a vegetable extract, or worse, a chemically-manufactured colorant. Need further proof these aren’t the chips for you? Most veggie chip varieties are cooked in canola oil, a rapeseed derivative that is thought to be toxic to humans and animals (appetizing, huh?)

Vegetable Tempura: 
Realistically, any vegetable that’s taken a dip in a deep fat fryer really shouldn’t be considered healthy fare, but for tempura, the odds are stacked even less in the veggies favor. Although touted as one of the lighter types of batter, most “authentic” tempura recipes call for liberal use of cornstarch and heaps of sugar. Our tip? Stick to the stir fry!

Vegetable Sushi:
In recent years, sushi has risen to fame as the healthy meal of the celebrity set, and while we know to stay away from some lower grade sushi (like the supermarket sushi that boasts sugar-laden imitation fish), the reality is even simple vegetable sushi can be unhealthy. The culprit? The rice, which in sushi is mixed with rice vinegar and plenty of sugar. If you must do the sushi samba, ask for brown rice or balance out the meal with plenty of steamed veggies, such as hijiki (cooked seaweed) or oshitashi (boiled spinach with soy sauce).

Tomato Ketchup: 
Tomatoes? Check. Vinegar? Check. High fructose corn syrup? Definitely! In fact, ketchup contains so much sugar (typically holding the second or third spot on the ingredients list) it might as well be re-branded tomato syrup (yum!) Instead, opt for salsa, malt vinegar, spices or learn to go without!

Spinach Dip:
Think the chips are the only bad thing going on in a spinach dip? Turns out the dip itself isn’t all that good for you either. Yes, it does contain healthy spinach (and sometimes artichokes too!), but it’s also chock-full of heavy cream, mayo and cream cheese, and quite often topped with bread crumbs or croutons. Why use the ingredient that is usually featured least prominently to name the dip? It would be like calling “carrot cake” carrot cake.

Canned Vegetable Soup: 
It’s easy to think that the food manufacturers are doing you a favor by preparing a delicious, hearty – and frequently low-calorie – vegetable soup, but the reality is there are a multitude of evils hidden in that can! High sodium content aside, many of these soups also contain honey, sugar and other sweeteners – whether real or artificial – that can amount to as much as 15g of sugar per half-cup serving!

VEGGIES YOU SHOULDN'T 

EAT! 

Check out this list, after you read it...you might not be as healthy as you thought you were. But, some of these are pretty obvious...if they aren't then you find out another thing about yourself - you are an idiot! 

keep reading this list 

Via: Marks Daily Apple 

DC Comics is set to reintroduce a major character as gay. 

Honchos at Superman's comic book home, DC Comics, said this weekend that one of their most identifiable (but as of yet unnamed) straight characters will soon be coming out of the closet, according to a report....

 

Didio said DC's position had shifted on the subject since he said in an interview last year that any homosexual characters would be new introductions, and that none of their existing characters' sexual orientations would shift.

 

DC vice president Bob Wayne likened DC's change in tune to President Obama's shift on gay marriage, explaining that DC's policy “has evolved,” the report says.

Gay Superheroes Are Coming. 

Via: Breitbart 

What's Wrong with America? 

Foodbeast is reporting that fast food chain Carl’s Jr. is testing out a new product called the Ice Cream Brrrger in Orange County, California. The Brrrger is a burger-shaped ice cream novelty consisting of chocolate ice cream and “condiments” sandwiched between two sugar cookies. Wow, talk about troubling ...funny or both. Has anyone walked in the cereal section of you're local supermarket lately? It's pretty much a candy store. Every single cereal box is promoting anything but breakfast . Oh yes, I want Reeses flavored cereal mom! Please let me have it!!

Via: Laughing Squid 

Daily Homiescope: 

You will eat a lot of cheese so make sure to take a shower. You don't want to confuse what you eat with the way you smell. 

GIANT 

MOON!

Via: Ruines Humaines 

LA SALUD ES MI VERDAD

http://elperiodistaespiritual.blogspot.com/2012/05/la-salud-es-mi-verdad.html

Self-portrait, North Miami, 2009

MIAMI'S PROBLEM

So, word on the street even more artists are leaving Miami in droves. People say its lack of support from the city. Fuck that, people just spend more money on south beach pleasures. Everything is about today, you know like bottle services and clothes. In Miami you could never be the VIP....you can't be a Very Imporant Painter! Everyone is leaving! 

Image: Valissa Yoe's FB

Como ya lo dije en el post anterior, les contaba que estoy leyendo dos libros de secretos, uno es Libro de los Secretos de OSHO una biblia de libro con 1139 paginas de informacion escrita por el famoso lider espiritual controversial-el cual esta basado en el Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, 112 Llaves para meditar e ir hacia dentro, y el otro fascinante Libro de Secretos del doctor Deepak Chopra, a quien tendre  el placer de conocer en su centro de salud, The Chopra Center en Carlsbad, California durante este proximo mes de Agosto, participando en el retiro "Journey into Healing, o Camino a la Sanacion."

Ayer di mi primera clase por telefono a mi hermano en Venezuela sobre el secreto # 5 que menciona Chopra en su libro, para entender la diferencia que existe entre dolor y sufrimiento. 

De acuerdo a Chopra ambos terminos no pueden ser confundidos. Sufrir significa agarrarse del dolor y no dejarlo ir.

Ahora bien, aplicandolo a algun sufrimiento personal que tengamos, cualquiera que haya sido el motivo, Chopra recomienda que se analicen muy bien los pasos que nos llevan al sufrimiento:

1. Pasar por alto o ignorar cuales fueron los motivos o hechos del evento acontecido.

2. Adoptar una percepcion negativa.

3. Re-enforzar dicha percepcion a traves de pensamientos obsesivos.

4. Perderse en el dolor sin querer ver cuales son las vias para salir del problema immediatamente.

5. Compararse a otras personas.

6. Cementar dicho sufrimiento a traves de las relaciones con otras personas, familiares y amigos.

 Cualquiera que haya sido el evento que te ha hecho sufrir, piensa que eso no forma parte de la realidad, si bien fue real lo que paso, eso no quiere decir que eso forma parte de tu realidad, de la realidad que tu deseas para tu vida.

Analiza muy bien tus problemas, medita, ora y los resultados seran Divinos. 

I am currently reading two books of secrets. One, is the Books of Secrets by Osho, a fascinating 1139-page version by the controversial spiritual teacher from India and the Books of Secret by Deepak Chopra, a doctor and spiritual teacher also from India whom I will have the enormous pleasure to meet this coming August 2012 at the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California for the “Journey into Healing Retreat.”

In his revealing secret # 4 “Four Paths Lead to Unity” Chopra gives an example on how to master pure awareness learning how to live it.

“In a fascinating text called the Shiva Sutras, which date back centuries in India, Shiva meaning ‘God’ and the word Sutra meaning ‘Thread’ the reader is being shown tiny threads that lead back to the eternal source.

There is a wider context for the Shiva Sutras, which require following the path that is opened up by an epiphany.

In the Vedic tradition, each person can choose four paths that arise from feeling, thinking, acting, and being.

Each path is called a Yoga, the Sanskrit word for ‘union,’ because unity-merging with one reality-was the goal.

Over the ages, the four Yogas have come to define specific paths that suit the kind of temperament a seeker has, although in truth you can follow several or all at once:

Your meditations go directly to the essence of your being. That essence is what love of God, selfless action and knowledge are trying to reach.” Deepak Chopra, The Books of Secrets, Three Rivers Press, New York, 2004.

SECRET NUMBER 4

Bhakti Yoga leads to unity by loving God.
Karma Yoga leads to unity through selfless action.
Gyana Yoga leads to unity through knowledge.
Raj Yoga leads to unity through meditation and renunciation.

"I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all."

- Steve Jobs 

The past few years have witnessed the fallen grace of
“Persons of the Cloth”; Catholic Priests, Evangelical Mainline denominational Pastors, including mega- church Pastors. It’s brought great sadness to those  who have seen their faces on books, CD’s, and
DVD’s and felt spiritually awakened with their on air sermons via radio or cable. The words are inspiring. But what should we think or say when they commit the very sin that they preached against?.... Oops?

Their “oops!” moments have included having relationships with prostitutes, personal secretaries under age adults, and other peoples’ spouses while they were supposedly happily married. All this while others assumed they were celibate or straight. 

Ted Haggard headed a large association of Evangelicals and was an openly vocal critic of the gay lifestyle. Ironically, He was ousted by a meth drug user. The meth-head revealed He and Haggard smoked drugs and had sex. The reverend started a new venture, in a
press conference he states,…”we will welcome everyone including gay, straight, bi, tall and short”.

Hey Rev…seems you have already done this?

It would be interesting to spend time giving a take on their hypocrisy; it too would be equally hypocritical for us to do the same, sense we know all of us have had our own embarrassing or sin-filled moments.  Instead, “Get Provoked   asks, when a Pastor takes this great stumble, whose paying for it?

Let’s be clear, no one is suggesting that Pastors are perfect. “Get Provoked” is only pointing out that their claim to fame came from their ability to sway people that they deserve large salaries to preach the same Gospel others are preaching for a fraction of the amount. Then, some use their influence and riches to perform dastardly or bastardly deeds.

Most Pastors can’t afford to make cash settlement; estimates  have put some small churches salaries for their Pastor at, $40,000-$50,000 not including all the perks like allowances for cars, housing, health care and school. Pastors with this nominal salary who is sued will be left to go to trial will rely on God to get them out of trouble. However, Reports are that mega- church salaries can provide mega income as well. Christianpost.com  reports that mega-church Pastors can bring in $140,000-$500,000 dollars annually. This doesn’t include their speaking fees   gifts they receive during special occasions. The compensation can easily make the Pastors,
million-are within a few years. Unfortunately, this fallen Pastor settles out of court and pays millions to their victims while suppressing the truth at the same time.

Bishop Eddie Long, Pastor of New Missionary Baptist Church reportedly used church resources to go on
trips with young men he was supposed to be mentoring. We will never find out all the facts because Pastor Long settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money.

The latest news is Pastor Long is suing Jamal Parris, Spencer LeGrande and Centino Kemp for spilling the beans even though they signed a confidentiality agreement.

What we want to know is Who is recouping the cost from the church resources he used to entertain the young men?

anyway, We don’t have an answer do you?

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"Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes 

clear to the bone."

- Redd Foxx 

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